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ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Normalized Sum-Over-Paths Edit Distances
Abstract--In this paper, normalized SoP string-edit distances, taking into account all possible alignments between two sequences, are investigated. These normalized distances are v...
Silvia García, François Fouss, Masashi Shimbo, M...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond "Near-Duplicates": Learning Hash Codes for Efficient Similar-Image Retrieval
Finding similar images in a large database is an important, but often computationally expensive, task. In this paper, we present a two-tier similar-image retrieval system with the...
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Transition Thresholds for Binarization of Historical Documents
Abstract--This paper extends the transition method for binarization based on transition pixels, a generalization of edge pixels. This method originally computes transition threshol...
Marte Alejandro Ramírez-Ortegón, Raul Rojas
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Initialisation-Free Active Contour Segmentation
We present a region based active contour model which does not require any initialisation and is capable of modelling multi-modal image regions. Its external force is based on stat...
Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Evaluation Methods Based on Local Gray-Intensity Variances for Binarization of Historical Documents
Abstract--We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of six unsupervised evaluation method to tune Sauvola's threshold in optical character recognition (OCR) applications. We propose...
Marte Alejandro Ramírez-Ortegón, Raul Rojas
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Perceptual Image Retrieval by Adding Color Information to the Shape Context Descriptor
In this paper we present a method for the retrieval of images in terms of perceptual similarity. Local color information is added to the shape context descriptor in order to obtain...
Marçal Rusiñol, Farshad Nourbakhsh, Dimosthenis ...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Feature Extraction Methods for Audio Classification
With the growing popularity of video sharing web sites and the increasing use of consumer-level video capture devices, new algorithms are needed for intelligent searching and inde...
Charles Parker
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Image Parsing with a Three-State Series Neural Network Classifier
We propose a three-state series neural network for effective propagation of context and uncertainty information for image parsing. The activation functions used in the proposed mod...
Seyed Mojtaba Seyedhosseini Tarzjani, Antonio Paiv...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Malware Detection on Mobile Devices Using Distributed Machine Learning
This paper presents a distributed Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm in order to detect malicious software (malware) on a network of mobile devices. The light-weight system mo...
Ashkan Sharifi Shamili, Christian Bauckhage, Tansu...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Recognition and Prediction of Situations in Urban Traffic Scenarios
The recognition and prediction of intersection situations and an accompanying threat assessment are an indispensable skill of future driver assistance systems. This study focuses o...
Eugen Käfer, Christoph Hermes, Christian Wöhler,...